It's LinkedIn messaging. In your terminal.
Primarily an experiment in learning Go and building terminal UIs with Bubble Tea. LinkedIn messaging was a convenient target — something I actually use, with enough complexity to be interesting.
LinkedIn used to have a perfectly good API. Then they closed it. Presumably so they could optimize engagement metrics, which is corporate for "we would like to show you more ads." What's left is messaging via mautrix-linkedin, so that's what we've got. You can read your messages without seeing a single "Thoughts?" post. That's not nothing.
- Real-time messaging with live updates via SSE
- Keyboard-driven navigation
- Conversation list with unread filtering
- Threaded message view with grouped sender headers
- Dracula colour theme
- Compose and reply inline
- Mark read/unread, delete conversations
- Typing indicator
go install github.com/ggfevans/endorse/cmd/endorse@latestLaunch the TUI:
endorseTry it without a LinkedIn account:
endorse --demoOn first launch you'll be prompted for your LinkedIn session cookies. Extract these from your browser's developer tools:
- Open LinkedIn in your browser
- Open Developer Tools (F12) → Application → Cookies
- Copy the
li_atcookie value - Paste it into the auth prompt
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Tab / Shift+Tab |
Cycle focus between panels |
j / k |
Move down / up |
g / G |
Jump to top / bottom |
Enter |
Open conversation |
r |
Reply / compose |
m |
Toggle read/unread |
d |
Delete conversation |
Ctrl+D |
Send message |
Esc |
Back / cancel |
q / Ctrl+C |
Quit |
git clone https://github.com/ggfevans/endorse.git
cd endorse
make buildThe binary will be in bin/endorse.
make testThis project was built using AI-assisted development with Claude. I told it what to build and it built the wrong thing and I said no and it built a different wrong thing and eventually we arrived here through a process best described as "collaborative stubbornness." Commits with substantial AI contributions are marked with Co-authored-by tags because we're not going to pretend otherwise.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.
MIT — provided as-is, no warranty
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or even acknowledged by LinkedIn. LinkedIn does not know about this. If LinkedIn did know about this they would probably send a cease and desist, which is rich coming from a company that sends you 14 emails a week about people you went to junior high school with.